Product object
Mushroomiya
Mushroomiya is a grown light sculpture, a monumental pendant dome that reinterprets the mashrabiya through living matter. Its open-cell shell is grown from mycelium on palm-derived fibre and adapts an earlier research language into a statement lamp shade rather than a conventional fixture.
When illuminated, it projects a dramatic landscape of shadows across walls, ceiling, and floor. It is a mashrabiya grown rather than carved, patterned through the logic of mycelial roots underground.
Research origin
From The Mushroomiya Threshold to a statement lamp.
Mushroomiya began in a research collaboration with Dalia Hamati of studioDA, her design studio, and Mathieu Andries around a contemporary adaptation of mashrabiya pattern logic. The project was titled The Mushroomiya Threshold, conceived as a living gateway for Dubai Design Week 2025.
The installation reimagined the traditional mashrabiya screen through mycelium, drawing from vegetal ornament, airflow, filtered light, and the moving visual effects of layered pattern. Instead of carving or machining the screen, the geometry was grown through a living binder on local biomass.
Inspired by both mashrabiya and the branching intelligence of mushroom roots underground, Andy Cartier later adapted that design language into Mushroomiya, a single monumental lamp that turns the original threshold research into an inhabitable object.
Research
Dalia Hamati, studioDA, Mathieu Andries
Project
The Mushroomiya Threshold, Dubai Design Week 2025
Adaptation
Andy Cartier into a monumental lamp shade
Material composition
Pattern and material, one organism.
The pattern source and the structural material are the same biological organism, expressed at two scales: thread and object. Grown on palm-derived fibre, the mycelium binds the substrate into a solid, lightweight lattice where ornament is the material itself.
Assembly
The shell is handled as a precise object, not a speculative prototype.
Material system
Shell, inoculated substrate, and loose fibre read as one continuous material story.
Grown finish
Fibrous, tactile, naturally irregular, and shaped by living growth.
Technical overview
A monumental pendant dome with a precise grown logic.
Category
Lighting
Type
Monumental ceiling lamp
Dimensions
1060 × 387 × 30 mm
Structure
Half-sphere open-cell dome
Light source
Integrated LED, 2700K, dimmable
Material system
Mycelium on palm-tree fibre waste
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